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Reckoning Looms at Penn Station

Amtrak is still calculating the cost of the repair work this summer

Rail disruption tormenting hundreds of thousands of commuters at New York Penn Station, where passengers are bracing for a summer of accelerated repair work, is due largely to chronic underfunding.

But money alone can’t solve Penn Station’s maintenance problems, said Stephen Gardner, a senior Amtrak official. The disruption represents a reckoning after decades of running Penn Station at a pace it was never designed to handle, he...